Why Isn’t Anyone Giving Obama Credit for Ousting Maliki?

... 2014. As Maliki’s consummate failure became apparent in the face of ISIS’s rapid advance, other Shiites followed Sadr’s lead, to even include members of Maliki’s own party as the end of June approached. The Beginning of Maliki’s ... ... coming under intense pressure. With no progress on the political front, even Maliki’s closest allies, including the Shiite Iranian regime (arguable even a bigger supporter of him than the U.S.), began to distance themselves from him and abandon him....